While we're all telling stories, I figured I would join in ...<br><br>On our way back from our Youth Missions trip to Moose Factory, Ontario, we had to stay overnight in Cochrane, ON with the next day falling on the Lord's Day. First I called a CRC church and was able to speak to a very nice lady, who informed me that they had no pastor that day, but as a deacon she would be giving the sermon. So, I kept looking. We found a church called Knox Presbyterian Church that was within walking distance from our hotel. Knox Presbyterian Church! With a name like that, I could just see the pastor stretched over the pulpit, pointing his finger as he hammered us with glorious divine truth! No one was available when I called, so we took a walk on Saturday to see the place. It was a quaint, simple, historic building that had all the appearance of reformed antiquity, this was going to be great! The next day we arrived and our group of 10 doubled the church attendence. I thought that this too was a good sign, for I would expect that a truly Reformed church would be rather modest in its size.<br><br>Come to find out, the church was without a pastor so they had a seminary student fill in for the day. Hey, no problem I thought. We'll probably get some kind of exhaustive scholastic disputation on the latest interesting theological tidbit this young man has learned, but that's okay, we can handle that for a day. Relaxing into the pew, I congratulated myself for leading my little flock to this little spring in the desert ... but wait ... why are they rolling out that television in front of the pulpit? Perhaps we will watch a video about John Knox first to get our spiritual juices primed? Well, not quite. It was a video pining for donations towards some world hunger project being done in conjunction with the PCUSA. My hopes were being dashed. But alas, it was only a short time, and we sang some traditional hymns, so perhaps this was a unique aberation introduced by some well-meaning members while they were without a pastor.<br><br>The seminary student was a Lutheran in training. He was to preach from the texts appointed in their liturgical calendar. Unfotunately, I cannot remember them now, though I do know Romans 9 was included. It is hard to remember the Scripture texts because his sermon barely touched on them. His emphasis was on the impossibility of comprehensive knowledge of Scripture, and hence the church must be careful about pretending to have any absolute truth. He gave us many quotations and references to Karl Barth.<br><br>Knox Presbyterian Church ... Well, so much for what's in a name. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/weep.gif" alt="weep" title="weep[/img]<br><br>~Jason